AGENDA

AWE USA 2025

Jun 9 Jun 10 Jun 11 Jun 12
09:30 AM - 09:55 AM
Room 101B
Creator
Jun 12
Room 101B

Crafting Immersive Audio Experiences for Interactive VR Narratives

Larry Chang - Larrisim Studio
09:30 AM - 09:55 AM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 12
Promenade Room 104B

Using Vision-Language Models to Evaluate and Secure Mixed Reality Experiences

Maria Gorlatova - Duke University
09:30 AM - 09:55 AM
Room 101A
Developer
Jun 12
Room 101A

You are the controller! Mastering Hand Tracking in XR

Celine Tricart - Coven
09:30 AM - 09:55 AM
Room 102A
AI + XR
Jun 12
Room 102A

What is GenVFX? Merging AI & ML with Traditional CG/XR Workflows

Dale Carman - Groove Jones
Doug Hogan - Groove Jones
09:30 AM - 09:55 AM
Promenade Room 104A
Enterprise
Jun 12
Promenade Room 104A

Coca-Cola: The Future of GenAi Content Agility

Benny Lee - The Coca-Cola Company
09:30 AM - 09:55 AM
Room 103B/C
Collaboration, Training & Education
Jun 12
Room 103B/C

Building Immersive Learning Ecosystems: A Blueprint for Scalable Implementation

Meghan Kelly - Laramie County Community College
Ricky Holm - Chocolate Milk & Donuts
09:30 AM - 10:25 AM
Room 102B
Healthcare & Wellness
Jun 12
Room 102B

PANEL: Navigating the XR Healthcare Ecosystem

Bob Fine - IVRHA
Julia A Scott, PhD - XRSI
Haipeng (Mark) Zhang - American Medical Extended Reality Association
Brennan Spiegel - Cedars-Sinai Hospital Journal of Medical Extended Reality
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Room 101A
Developer
Jun 12
Room 101A

Making Magical Mixed Reality Games

Nicole Lazzaro - XEODesign and XEOPlay
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Room 103B/C
Collaboration, Training & Education
Jun 12
Room 103B/C

How To Build an Animated Instructor for VR Learning Applications

Sergey Kirshner - Fantastic Voyage Labs
Pavel Koutcherina - Fantastic Voyage Labs
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
GRAND BALLROOM
Main Stage
Jun 12
GRAND BALLROOM

Fireside Chat with Palmer Luckey

Palmer Luckey - Anduril
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Promenade Room 104A
Enterprise
Jun 12
Promenade Room 104A

What Does Success Look Like? Ways to Measure ROI with XR in Enterprise

Andy Hunt - The Hershey Company
Jenny Jiang - CVS Health
Drew Weigel - Shutterstock
10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Expo Hall
Networking
Jun 12
Expo Hall

Expo, Playground, Gaming Hub and Builders Nexus

10:10 AM - 10:35 AM
Gaming Stage - Expo Hall
Gaming Hub
Jun 12
Gaming Stage - Expo Hall

Building a VR Game for Everyone

Steve Lukas - ContractXR
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Nexus Stage - Expo Hall
Builders Nexus
Jun 12
Nexus Stage - Expo Hall

Hackathon Winners: Immersive Insiders XR Design Challenge

Dinesh Punni - Immersive Insiders
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM
Room 102B
Healthcare & Wellness
Jun 12
Room 102B

Milliseconds Matter: Time, Decision-making and XR in Health, Sports and High Performance

Habib Noorbhai - University of Johannesburg
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM
Room 103B/C
Collaboration, Training & Education
Jun 12
Room 103B/C

Lean on Me: A Parent's Guide to Gaming, STEM, and Their Child's Future

Malcolm Williams - Technorganic
10:40 AM - 11:05 AM
Gaming Stage - Expo Hall
Gaming Hub
Jun 12
Gaming Stage - Expo Hall

Helping VR Creators Win

Katherine Davenport - Another Axiom
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Networking
Jun 12

LUNCH

11:20 AM - 11:45 AM
Nexus Stage - Expo Hall
Builders Nexus
Jun 12
Nexus Stage - Expo Hall

Escaping the Phone: Mobile to XR with "DuolingoXR"

Sarah Gordon - University of Cincinnati
Kate Bielotserkovksa - Lemon Sharks
12:30 PM - 12:55 PM
Room 101B
Creator
Jun 12
Room 101B

Crafting the Future: Seamless AR Content Creation Across Platforms

ARman Atoyan - ARLOOPA
12:30 PM - 12:55 PM
GRAND BALLROOM
Main Stage
Jun 12
GRAND BALLROOM

Virtual Pathways to Transcendence

Tom Furness - Virtual World Society
12:30 PM - 12:55 PM
Room 102A
AI + XR
Jun 12
Room 102A

Artificial General Intelligence in Metaverse and Web3: Risks and Threats to National Security

Neil Singh - ISSQUARED Inc.
12:30 PM - 12:55 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 12
Promenade Room 104B

Building a Powerful Go-To-Market Strategy for XR SaaS

Austin Baker - Autodesk
01:00 PM - 01:25 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 12
Promenade Room 104B

Choosing a Durable Immersive 3D Stack

Ben Erwin - The Poly Awards
01:00 PM - 01:55 PM
Room 101B
Creator
Jun 12
Room 101B

PANEL: The Future of 3D Graphics Development

Alexey Medvedev - Meta
Kaiser Pister - ALL3D
Laura Reznikov - Meta
Deia Green - Verizon
Mike Festa - Khronos Group
01:10 PM - 02:00 PM
Hall A
Collaboration, Training & Education
Jun 12
Hall A

Colleges and Career Development Roundtables #1

Dr. Lindsay Persohn - University of South Florida
Dr. Csaba Osvath - University of South Florida
Dr. Howard Kaplan - University of South Florida
Aundrea Frahm - University of Nevada Las Vegas
01:30 PM - 01:55 PM
Room 101A
Developer
Jun 12
Room 101A

Scaling Immersive Automotive Experiences: Deploying NVIDIA Omniverse on Apple Vision Pro

Max Bickley - NVIDIA
02:00 PM - 02:25 PM
Room 102B
Healthcare & Wellness
Jun 12
Room 102B

Forecasting Tomorrow’s Medicine Through XR Simulations

Susan Persky - National Institutes of Health
02:10 PM - 03:00 PM
Hall A
Collaboration, Training & Education
Jun 12
Hall A

Colleges and Career Development Roundtables #2

Dr. Lindsay Persohn - University of South Florida
Dr. Csaba Osvath - University of South Florida
Dr. Howard Kaplan - University of South Florida
Aundrea Frahm - University of Nevada Las Vegas
02:15 PM - 02:40 PM
GRAND BALLROOM
Main Stage
Jun 12
GRAND BALLROOM

Fireside Chat with World Economic Forum and The World Bank

Flora McCrone - World Economic Forum
Jimmy Vainstein - The World Bank
02:30 PM - 03:25 PM
Room 101B
Creator
Jun 12
Room 101B

PANEL: Monetize This: Turning Creativity Into Income

Bridger Smith - Noetic Talent Agency
02:30 PM - 03:25 PM
Room 102A
AI + XR
Jun 12
Room 102A

PANEL: The Intersection of AI and AR in the Real World

Nir Daube - LIBBA
02:45 PM - 03:40 PM
GRAND BALLROOM
Main Stage
Jun 12
GRAND BALLROOM

Socratic Style Debate on the Future of Immersive Tech

Alvin Graylin - Our Next Reality | Virtual World Society
Louis Rosenberg - Unanimous AI
Leslie Shannon - Nokia
Kent Bye - Voices of VR Podcast
03:00 PM - 03:25 PM
Room 102B
Healthcare & Wellness
Jun 12
Room 102B

The Art of Entrainment: Unlocking Altered States

David Lobser - light.clinic
03:00 PM - 03:25 PM
Promenade Room 104A
XR Enablement
Jun 12
Promenade Room 104A

Biometrics in Spatial Computing: Unlocking Human Interaction

Richard Waltman - OpenBCI, Inc.
03:45 PM - 04:30 PM
GRAND BALLROOM
Main Stage
Jun 12
GRAND BALLROOM

AWE USA 2025 Wrap-up and Best in Show Awards

Ori Inbar - AWE & Super Ventures